Barbara W Tuchman. creator Barbara W Tuchman. text World War-Military campaigns.-Western Front (World War (1914-1918)) xxu New York : Macmillan , 1962(1964) monographic eng

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511 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A funeral -- "Let the last man on the right brush the channel with his sleeve" -- "The shadow of Sedan" -- "A single British soldier ..." -- The Russian steam roller -- August 1: Berlin -- August 1: Paris and London -- Ultimatum in Brussels -- "Home before the leaves fall" -- "Goeben ... and enemy then flying" -- Liege and Alsace -- BEF to the continent -- Sambre et Meuse -- Debacle: Lorraine, Ardennes, Charleroi, Mons -- "The Cossacks are coming!" -- Tannenberg -- The flames of Louvain -- Blue water, blockade, and the great neutral -- Retreat -- The front is Paris -- Von Kluck's turn -- "Gentlemen, we will fight on the Marne" -- Afterward. /Barbara W Tuchman. 940.4144 TUC 9780241968215 Brijwasi Book Distributors H-87,Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, New Delhi-110092 180705 20180705131757.0